Foreword: Igor Barreto
Igor Barreto is a Venezuelan poet, editor and translator. He has been Director of Publications at the Museo Jacobo Borges in Caracas, Director of the Cinemateca Nacional, Director of Collections of the Fundación de Etnomusicología y Folklore, and Director of Imprenta Anauco.
Afterword: Claudio Lomnitz
Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation (2021).
Edited: Rosalind C. Morris
Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (Columbia, 2025) and, with William Kentridge, Accounts and Drawings from Underground (rev. ed., Seagull, 2021). Her most recent film is the documentary We are Zama Zama (2021).
Afterword: Luis Pérez-Oramas
Luis Pérez-Oramas is a Venezuelan poet, art historian and curator. He is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and numerous catalogue texts and critical essays. In 2011, he was Curatorial Director of the Sao Paolo Biennale. From 2006 to 2017, he was Latin American Art Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
By (author) Rafael Sánchez
Rafael Sánchez (1950–2024) was senior lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He is the author of Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism (Fordham, 2016).